'De Zee naar Harderwijk' was a camera and sound installation at the Oosterscheldekering in Zeeland (Dutch coast) for St Jansdal hospital in Harderwijk, The Netherlands, commissioned by SKOR (Stichting Kunst en Openbare Ruimte / Foundation Art and Public Space).

The sea was filmed for patients of the St Jansdal hospital, who could watch the sea live on their televisions from their beds. The camera and sound setup at the Oosterscheldekering gave 24 hours per day experience of the sea for a period of a year (2009). The images were sent by internet to one of the hospital’s TV channels, making it possible for viewers to experience the waves, tides, surf, and sea sounds at any time of the day.

On the roof of the central operating building of the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management in Zeeland (Ir. J.W. Topshuis) an Axis 214 camera has been placed in a special outdoor housing in north-north-western direction. A directional microphone in an outdoor housing recorded the sounds of the sea.

Archive and postcard
Every 5 minutes - i.e. 288 times a day - a film still was shot and saved on an ever-growing online archive. In addition to live images of the sea on their televisions, the hospital’s patients also received a weekly post card featuring sea images that were shot during the previous week.

In collaboration with Luna Maurer

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St Jansdal Hospital

St Jansdal Hospital

location of camera on top of building Rijkswaterstaat/ Zeeland

camera and sound setup

weekly postcard for patients

Press and TV

TV Gelderland, 6 january 2009

Trouw, 6 january 2009

Volkskrant, 6 january 2009

De Stentor, 7 january 2009

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Hidden Observatory was an intervention in the elevator of the former Post CS building in Amsterdam. I built an unremarkable double wall in the elevator and hit behind this fake wall. I observed the elevator passengers with a camera through a small hole from my hiding place and experimented with my hiding through speaking loudly from time to time.

The purpose of this intervention was to create a safe zone within a fear space (elevator) and reverse the fear situation: Instead of being locked up in the cage of the elevator, being exposed to the gaze of the passengers and losing control, I was the observer myself, I could play with my hiding (one moment I was perfectly hidden, another moment my voice was recognized) which enabled me to regain control over the situation.

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The space is made visible by the structure that is placed within it. The space is defined by the distortion of the structure by the movements of the person.
It's an interplay between the 'cold' architectural construction and the 'warm' organic unstructured movements.

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Often you count stairs automatically while climbing up. Numbering the stairs makes them part of a game (also for children). With the number, each step becomes an object of its own.

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